Well judging by the amount of anime one of my chinese pals has watched, (if you took every anime he's watched and watched them back-to-back, it'd only take a couple months w/out food or sleep to finish it...) I'd say they rather enjoy it. Of course, he's never actually lived in china, but his parents and entire extended family all moved to the US right before he was born.

I should ask that chinese exchange student across the hall if he's watched any japanese cartoons.

EDIT: oh looky looky, there's a http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/02/27/1555215.shtml on this today.

yeah, China is really heading down a bad road.  I have arguments with the most annoying kid in my school (chinese,) who insists that the Communist Party is great, and that they can't allow freedoms because they are a developing nation.  I already have issues with China over Tibet, and the freedoms thing, but having this kid tell me that the Chinese shouldn't have freedoms because China is a developing nation is bs.  China is a mostly developed nation, and if they gave more freedoms to their citizens, they would "develop" faster.